Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: I/O Request [Elevator; Clustering; Scatter-Gather] | Date | Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:10:55 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 04 March 2003 14:50, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Do Clustering of request and scatter-gather mean the same ?? Confused > > to the core... Kindly help me ... > > No, the elevator clustering refers to clustering request that are > contigious on disk. Scatter-gather may cluster sg entries that are > contigious in memory.
Hi Jens,
I think you meant to write *non*contiguous in memory (but contiguous on the device).
Regards,
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